Our current mood is clearly an overwhelming sense of anger and frustration towards the owners and Bilic. A bad loss to Huddersfield would almost seem like a justification of what we're feeling and might precipitate the departure of Bilic and possibly the arrival of Benitez.

But if we beat Huddersfield quite convincingly, however unlikely it might seem at the moment, what then? All is forgiven and everything in the garden is rosy? Or just a stay of execution for Bilic? What happens to all the anger? It would be really weird on here, for sure!

I like Bilic and hope he can turn it around but I'm not sure he will. I feel that if we lose this one it's literally all over for him. Hopefully we can get the win tho and a clean sheet and he can start to rebuild the confidence.

In post match interviews he's starting to look completely lost almost like he'd be pleased to be put out of his misery

But I think we will get beat quite easily and that will be the end of Slav.... Sadly.

Norflundon
12:27 Tue Sep 5Re: What do we want from the Huddersfield game?

AlfDon't you think the reason he's dropped Obiang could possibly be he was our worst player at Man Utd then I think he came on at 2-2 against Southampton when we seemed to be in control of the game even tough we had 10 men we ended up losing, he was definitely the least effective of noble and rice against Cheltenham plus he was garbage in PRE season. Maybe he'll trust noble and kouyate to play behind Lanzini as they were superb together for 12 months and Pedro has had about 5 decent games for us

ornchurch ammer
12:20 Tue Sep 5Re: What do we want from the Huddersfield game?

Much as Sir Alf has described below I want to see a level of fitness that we have not seen since we left Upton Park.

Sitting so high at St James it was obvious that Newcastle were so much fitter than us and their two men closing down the ball all the team made such a mess of our passing it around the back that we were pressured in to going back to Hart for a punt up field which more often than not gave the ball away.

Without the proper fitness a lot of what else is required cannot be done.

I like Bilic and have a lot of sympathy for him dealing with a cunt like Sullivan but the one area that is totally down to him is the fitness of the players.